The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Duke University for the "CC* COMPUTE - REGION: NCSHARE ACCELERATING IMPACT - GPUS-AS-A-SERVICE (NCSHARE AI-GAAS)" project. The $1,056,062 award, effective November 15, 2024, will establish a powerful GPU cluster on North Carolina's research and education network to provide virtualized and secure GPU access to colleges and universities across the state. This will address both the lack of affordable GPU resources for institutions with modest needs, as well as the high-scale GPU requirements for artificial intelligence and large language model research at larger universities. The project leverages prior NSF investments in shared science and computing infrastructure in North Carolina to deliver this GPU-as-a-Service capability, which can also support certain regulated research projects through the use of encrypted overlay networks and software-defined networking techniques.
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